Self-portrait, 2021
b. 1999, East Village, NYC
Rainer Turim is a lens-based artist from and based in New York City’s East Village. His visual works aim to understand the nature and language of intimacy, as well as the borders between reality, fantasy, and the memory/dreamscape. In 2019, Turim was the winner of the Ilford US Student Competition.
Turim holds a BA in Photography from Bard College, where he began his ongoing project The Veins I Couldn’t See. In this project he photographs his loved ones and public spaces as indiscernible vestiges of his relationship to the subject and their history. Within this relational reframing, Turim examines the in-between of the past, present, and a possible future through evading any semblance of an entry or exit point.
rt6644(at)bard.edu
Exhibitions
Throwing a dart at the wall and drawing the target around it, 28 Varick Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
* The Veins I Couldn’t See, Woods Gallery, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2022
The 43rd Annual Photo Regional, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY, 2021
Pankumenta 2020: A Retrospective, Bard College Berlin, Online, 2021
Student Art Exhibition, Static Arts Collective, Online, 2022
Out of Ink: The Xerox Show, Last Show at Super Club, 8 Ball Community, New York, NY, 2018
Open Call, Woods Gallery, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2018
ICP Projected, International Center of Photography Museum, New York, NY, 2018
Publications
Alice Fall / Rainer Turim, A New Nothing, Online, Ongoing
8-Ball Almanac, NERO Editions, Rome, Italy, 2023
Alice Fall & Rainer Turim in Conversation, From Here On Out, Online, 2022
Back in Ink, 8 Ball Community, New York, NY, 2022
Bard Papers, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2019
Bard Papers, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2018
Out of Ink: The Xerox Show, Last Show at Super Club, 8 Ball Community, New York, NY, 2018